Agnieszka Holland’s unflinching, unerring Holocaust drama relates the true story of a sewer worker who discovers a group of Jews hiding in the tunnels beneath the Polish town of Lvov. Mad Moviegoer first saw the film at the Telluride Film Festival.

Each year, the Labor Day-weekend affair makes a habit of showing some of the finest films from indie distributor Sony Pictures Classics. “In Darkness” went on to became a nominee for the best foreign-language film Oscar. Holland and screenwriter David F. Shamoon capture the moral murkiness of survival even as it depicts one man’s improbable journey toward decency.

Lisa Kennedy has been The Denver Post film critic for quite a spell. The job returned her to the town she grew up in after 20 years of living elsewhere: mostly in New York City. During the time she's been back, she was voted into the National Society of Film Critics, a first for a Colorado reviewer. When she began Diary of a Mad Moviegoer, she wasn't just cribbing from Tyler Perry. In fact, she seldom goes all Madea on movies, thinking the gig is more like a conversation than a competition about who's right about which flick.